Author Archives: Solar wakeup

This is your SolarWakeup for June 30th, 2022

• PV-Magazine: CleanCapital acquires BQ Energy
• Reuters: Solar developer Intersect gets $750 mln investment from private equity firm TPG
• Bloomberg: First Solar Rejects US Site for New Factory, Eyes Europe or India Instead
• NYTimes: Liquefied Natural Gas Comes to Europe’s Rescue. But for How Long?
• PV-Tech: US solar facing fresh shipment delays as UFLPA enforcement raises quartzite queries
• Canary Media: Offshore wind installations surged threefold last year

Opinion

• Energy Storage News: Germany finally gives energy storage its own legal definition

Best, Yann

This is your SolarWakeup for June 29th, 2022

• Axios: White House announces $700M in private investments for EV charging
• Utility Dive: Puerto Ricans have built the largest renewable peaker plant in the world. Let’s use it.
• Bloomberg: ADT Is Betting Google Can Drag It Into the Future
• Energy Storage: Rule changes needed ‘to let battery storage lower Ontario’s electricity network costs’
• PV-Tech: European Council reaches agreement on its Renewable Energy Directive, includes faster permitting for renewable projects
• Reuters: Explainer: How the U.S. Supreme Court could hobble Biden’s climate efforts
• Canary Media: Energy Dome is on the brink of a long-duration storage breakthrough

Opinion

• PV-Magazine: Historic Pittsburgh steel plant reopens to make components for Nextracker

Best, Yann

This is your SolarWakeup for June 28th, 2022

• Bloomberg: Wall Street Banks Quietly Test Cyber Defenses at Treasury’s Direction
• Axios: G7 leaders stare down energy and climate tug of war
• Reuters: Power companies ask EU to step in on Spanish profit claw-back plan
• Solar Builder: CPUC makes major ruling to ease solar, storage interconnection
• RMI: Hydrogen Reality Check: We Need Hydrogen — But Not for Everything
• Energy Storage News: Storage-enabled microgrid projects proliferate in California
• PV-Magazine: Leyline invests $10 million to support 1 GW of solar development

Opinion

• Washington Post: Democrats race to revive economic package as inflation spikes

Best, Yann

This is your SolarWakeup for June 27th, 2022

• Utility Dive: Conservative approach to Texas grid operations could cost consumers $1.5B this year, says market monitor
• Bloomberg: New US Program Targets Rare Minerals Needed for EVs and Solar Panels
• Axios: The era of real-time climate change attribution is here
• Reuters: Retrofits and Renewables Can Help Create a Smarter, More Sustainable Grid
• PV-Tech: Michigan regulators approve Consumers Energy’s clean energy plan
• Energy Storage News: Eastern Generation gets permit for 135MW battery storage at New York fossil fuel plant site
• Canary Media: Chart – China dominates production of minerals needed for clean energy

Opinion

• PV-Magazine: $500 million invested in Pine Gate Renewables to support utility-scale solar buildout

Best, Yann